{"id":125,"date":"2004-01-24T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-01-24T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T06:16:00","slug":"what-else-can-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"What else can break?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning (well, 8:30 is not so early, but I was trying to sleep in) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgemorlan.com\">George Morlan Plumbing<\/a> came and replaced our hot water heater. It was about a $150 hot water heater, and $375 worth of labor. They took out the 10-year-old 80-gallon tank and replaced it with a 50-gallon tank. I had to fiddle with it, since code specifies the water temperature to be 120&deg;F and that wasn&#8217;t warm enough for a decent shower.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after that was all finished, the TV went on the blink. My parents bought the 27&#8243; Mitsubishi TV in 1987 or 1988 and run it constantly, and it&#8217;s been showing signs of the HV going bad. So I wasn&#8217;t too surprised. Fortunately, we have another 27&#8243; Mitsubishi TV that&#8217;s a few years newer from my friend&#8217;s mom, so my parents were able to keep watching videotapes from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I wonder who had good deals on TVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning (well, 8:30 is not so early, but I was trying to sleep in) George Morlan Plumbing came and replaced our hot water heater. It was about a $150 hot water heater, and $375 worth of labor. They took out the 10-year-old 80-gallon tank and replaced it with a 50-gallon tank. I had to fiddle with it, since code specifies the water temperature to be 120&deg;F and that wasn&#8217;t warm enough for a decent shower. Soon after that was all finished, the TV went on the blink. My parents bought the 27&#8243; Mitsubishi TV in 1987 or 1988 and run it constantly, and it&#8217;s been showing signs of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What else can break?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}